I’m not sure who’s brain came up with the TriFest idea, but it’s a good one. During the inaugural TriFest last year, there were Super Sprint, Sprint and Olympic distance races. This year, the “fest” dropped the Super Sprint and was combined with the annual Half-Ironman in Taylorsville. The 2012 TriFest featured Sprint and Olympic […]

SPRINT DISTANCE RACE 750m Swim – 15:01.8 (1:50/100yd) includes run from swim exit to T1 T1 – 0:54.4 12.4 mile Bike – 37:08.9 (20.1 mph) T2 – 0:40.9 3.1 mile Run – 22:25.6 (7:13 min/mile) Total Time – 1:16:11.6 2nd in my Age Group 9th out of 59 Overall 1 hour to rest and set […]

My string of 4 races in 15 days comes to a close this weekend. I will be competing in two triathlons tomorrow morning as part of TriFest, a Sprint at 8am and an Olympic at 10am. The Sprint distance triathlon consists of a 750 meter swim in Taylorsville Lake, a 20K (12.4 mile) bike and […]

My race started around 1:20pm on Friday (a full 42+ hours before the starting horn sounded), when we finally had all of our bags and children loaded into the truck for our 238 mile trek from Louisville to Knoxville.  The trip took us about 5 hours and included a few stops to calm our restless […]

1500 meter Swim – 28:26 (1:44/100yd) T1 – 4:21 – (time includes 1/4 mile run from swim exit to T1) 40K Bike – 1:10:11 (21.2 mph) T2 – 1:30 10K Run – 47:27 (7:38 min/mile) Total Time – 2:31:55 14th out of 40 in Age Group (30-34) 79th out of 291 Males 87th out of […]

Instead of staying in town and enjoying various Kentucky Derby festivities, tomorrow afternoon I will pack all of my triathlon gear and our family of four into my truck and head south to Knoxville, Tennessee. The 250 mile trip will no doubt be littered with several stops considering we have a 13 month old and […]

Distance – 13.1 miles Official Time – 1:37:46 (7:28 min/mile pace) Division Place – 78th out of 761 Gender Place – 396 out of 5159 Overall Place – 483rd out of 12,091 This was a weird one for me because I found myself more worried about my wife’s race than my own. Knowing that I […]

The very first road race that I ever ran was the 1998 Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon. It also happened to be the 25th running of the race. I think back about how I trained for that race 14 years ago and what I did and didn’t do. I wore a crappy pair of Reebok tennis […]

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No, this wasn’t my first triathlon…but I did two things that would have made it seem that way anyone watching me.  I woke up Sunday morning and had my customary race morning sweet potato. I was feeling pretty good considering the 12 straight hours of digging, planting and mulching I had done on Saturday. I […]